Recipe: Delicious tomato rice

Had a bad day at work? Here's a dish that will take away all your blues and lift your spirits.

Ingredients:

2 cups of boiled rice

1 tablespoon cumin seeds (jeera)

1 bay leaf

6 cloves

1 cinnamon stick, broken into half

2 cardamoms

2 finely sliced onions

1 tablespoon green chilli-ginger-garlic paste

12-15 mint leaves

1/2 teaspoon dried fenugreek leaves (kasoori methi)

1 teaspoon red chilli powder

A pinch of roasted cumin powder

2 finely chopped tomatoes

1 large red tomato blanched and pureed

1 tablespoon finely chopped coriander leaves for garnish

Salt to taste

1 tablespoon ghee (you can substitute it with oil)

How to prepare the dish:

- Heat oil or ghee in a vessel and saute cumin seeds. Add cloves, cinnamon and cardamoms and stir fry for thirty seconds.

- Saute the sliced onions for five minutes. Once the onions turn golden brown, Add green chilli-ginger-garlic paste, mint leaves and fenugreek leaves. Saute for four-five minutes.

- Add red chilli powder, cumin powder and mix. Add chopped tomato and tomato puree.

- Add salt as per taste and cook on low to medium flame, or till the gravy becomes thick.

- Reduce the heat and mix boiled rice.

- Remove in a serving bowl and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

- Serve warm with curd raita or any curry of your choice.

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